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Louisa is a 1950 American comedy film directed by Alexander Hall and starring Ronald Reagan, Charles Coburn, Ruth Hussey, Edmund Gwenn and Spring Byington. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound (Leslie I. Carey).

Plot
Grandma Louisa begins dating grocer Henry Hammond, much to the disgust of her son Hal and the rest of the family. Hal's boss Mr. Burnside becomes Hammond's rival for Louisa's affections.

Cast
 Ronald Reagan as Hal Norton
 Charles Coburn as Mr. Burnside
 Ruth Hussey as Meg Norton
 Edmund Gwenn as Mr. Hammond
 Spring Byington as Louisa Norton
 Piper Laurie as Cathy Norton
 Scotty Beckett as Jimmy Blake
 Jimmy Hunt as Chris Norton
 Connie Gilchrist as Gladys
 Willard Waterman as Dick Stewart
 Marjorie Crossland as Lil Stewart
 Martin Milner as Bob Stewart
 Terry Frost as Stacy Walker
 Dave Willock as Joe Collins

References

External links

1950 films
1950 comedy films
Universal Pictures films
American black-and-white films
American comedy films
Films directed by Alexander Hall
Films scored by Frank Skinner
1950s English-language films
1950s American films

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Feb 02 2010 February 2, 2010 February 2, 2010 NoComment	by ben
The Star Wars Reviewing Guy Has Done Avatar!
Ok, just hang on a second. Before you jump right in, you have to remember that he's only got the Avatar trailer footage to work with and it's only a two-parter, so it's not quite as good as the Phantom Menace annihilation. But it still better than 99.9999999999999999999999% of what's on YouTube or TV. And it appears he's in the midst of an Attack of the Clones review. Thank Darwin for people like him.
(Thanks, K.)
By the way, I finally got round to watching the first episode of The Persuasionists. I feel a bit sorry for the writer. I don't think the gags were that bad, but the whole thing is played so hard for laughs that it kind of reeks of an unpleasant desperation. The acting and direction are terrible so the lines don't stand a chance. I hope it gets better but I'll probably never find out because I've got better things to do. Like eat some bird shit off an old bit of grating above Paddington Station.

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Jugaadu Internet: Making Money Online - What is Stopping You?
Making Money Online - What is Stopping You?
Not everyone in the world gets to work on their money making dream job. Besides, what is your definition of a dream job anyway? A job with a friendly boss, trustworthy coworkers and work that does not require you to bear phone calls from a completely irrational client? More vacation time and no 'alarm clock' morning time for you to come? Lesser hours so you can spend more time with your family? Well no matter what kind of dream job you want, it certainly will concentrate on making money and spending less time on the job and more on actually having fun in life and making the best of what you have. Needless to say there are not a lot of employers who will do that for you. That is why it is important that you stop and realize exactly why you are wasting time at a dead end job making less money without any future prospects? Could it be the lack of business ideas? Or a lack of desire? That can't possibly be it, right? Well, look deep and you will find the reason is simple - stage fright.
There are a lot of money making and business ideas in your mind just waiting to come out but you do not follow through simply because a voice inside your head keeps saying: What if? Well with the advent of the internet there are so many more reasons why you should start making money right away! With all kinds of online money making plans and programs, you should be rich in no time. So get out of your comfort zone for a minute and think about your strongest desires - what would you feel if you got them all? Well there are a number of online business ideas that can be employed and put into practice by simply having a computer and an internet connection. Spend a few hours online everyday and you can make thousands of dollars and you don't even have to become a sales person. From blog based businesses to affiliate marketing techniques, there are a lot of things you can do to earn money from the comfort of your home. You will never have to worry about waking up at the irritating sound of the alarm clock again! There are some online clubs, communities and forums that can help set you in the right direction.
One of the most interesting money making idea online is the Maverick Money Makers system which can really provide you with some amazing tools and concepts that can change your life in no time and help you set up a thriving online business within a day's time. There are instructional tools and videos that facilitate the training process and the system is guaranteed to help you earn success within a day of taking part in the program. How amazing is that! Just imagine - in one day you can take the first step towards becoming your own boss! Not only does this online business system provide a functional means to earn a living but it will also help you bring in a lot more money than what you are earning at the moment. So if you are looking for amazing online money making techniques visit their website today.


Thank you for your interest in Walking Tall Pilates & Fitness. We are expanding and need an enthusiastic Pilates instructor. Applicants must have current Pilates Apparatus certification. The studio is fully equipped with 4 Reformers, a Cadillac and chair. It is located in he beautiful village of Millbrook, right next to Marona's Market.
I am looking for someone to build to full time with a possibility of management, marketing or even ownership opportunities. Part timers or weekend staffers will also be considered.
Currently the studio offers numerous group apparatus classes, yoga, private and semi-private programs. The studio has been around for many years and is growing to support more staff as we enter our busy summer season.
Please send us an email if you are interested. Questions, please call Dave at (845) 677-3703.


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Q: Cannot convert byte to int in Golang This is strange but I cannot convert byte value into int.
Here is the code:
fmt.Println("numMsgsByte is:", numMsgsByte)
numMsgsStr := string(numMsgsByte)
fmt.Println("numMsgsStr is:", numMsgsStr)
numMsgs, err = strconv.Atoi(numMsgsStr)
if err != nil {
    log.Println("error in msg conversion", err)
    return 0
}

The terminal print out:
numMsgsByte is: [5]
numMsgsStr is:
counter.go:51: error in msg conversion strconv.Atoi: parsing "\x05": invalid syntax

What could be wrong here? How can I fix it?

A: numMsgByte is not a byte, it is a []byte, which contains 5 (not "5"). When you convert it to string using string(numMsgByte), you get a string "\x5".
What you need is: int(numMsgType[0])

A: The correct way to get an integer out of Redis using redigo would be to just use redis.Int in the first place, instead of using redis.Bytes and trying to convert the result to an int yourself.
In general though, to convert an arbitrary byte array to the integer it represents, you would use the encoding/binary package. You'll need to know some key details about the byte array though:

*

*Does it represent a signed or unsigned value?

*Of what width? 32 bit? 64 bit?

*Of what byte order? Big-endian? Little-endian?

*Are you sure it's represented as an integer, not e.g. a float, or a string representation of a number?

To quote the example from the docs:
b := []byte{0xe8, 0x03, 0xd0, 0x07}
x1 := binary.LittleEndian.Uint16(b[0:])
x2 := binary.LittleEndian.Uint16(b[2:])
fmt.Printf("%#04x %#04x\n", x1, x2)

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Wendy Barber was born and raised in Orlando. She graduated from William R. Boone High School and earned her A.A. degree at Valencia State College. As a part-time jewelry sales associate during the 1995 Christmas season, she developed a love for gems and a fascination with the jewelry business. As a result, she gave up her accounting job in the medical field and secured a full-time position at a high-end, mall-based jewelry store. This career change has afforded her twenty years of knowledge and experience. Wendy has graduated from the Gemological Institute of America (GIA), receiving a Jewelry Service Professional certificate and her Graduate Gemologist Diploma. She derives great joy and satisfaction in assisting guests with unique jewelry designs and educating them on diamonds and gemstones.


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North American Drought Monitor (NADM) Indices and Data
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
Land-based Station
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The North American Drought Monitor (NADM) is a cooperative effort between drought experts in Canada, Mexico and the United States to monitor drought across the continent on an ongoing basis. The program was initiated at a three-day workshop in late April 2002 and is part of a larger effort to improve the monitoring of climate extremes on the continent. The NADM (Lawrimore et al. 2002) is based on the highly successful U.S. Drought Monitor (USDM), and as such, is being developed to provide an ongoing comprehensive and integrated assessment of drought throughout all three countries.
North American Drought Monitor - Indices and Data include: "Standard Precipitation Index (SPI)," "Percent of Average Precipitation" and "Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI)"
How to use this site:
Select an "Indicator" using the drop-down menu
Select "Data" as "Division-Based" or "Station-Based"
Select "Submit" to apply changes
Select image to enlarge it
North American Drought Monitor - Indices and Data: view maps/data for "Standard Precipitation Index (SPI)," "Percent of Average Precipitation" or "Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI)"
National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
NADM Indices
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Q: Writing a sub-query using a date clause So basically I'm trying to write something that prints the customer's name and area code if they have made a booking within the last 6 months of the current date.
My code looks like this (it has to be a subquery, not using join)
SELECT custfirstname, custareacode
FROM Customer
WHERE customerid IN (SELECT bookingdate
                FROM Bookings
                  WHERE DateDiff(CURDATE(), bookingdate) <=180);

Yet it doesn't work, but I can get it to work using a join function, but I can't with subquery, how would I do it in a subquery without a join function?

A: The problem with your code is that the subquery returns column bookingdate, that you are then comparing to customerid. This won't match.
I would recommend exists and a correlated subquery. Assuming that you do have column customerid in bookings, then:
select c.custfirstname, c.custareacode
from customer c
where exists (
    select 1
    from bookings b
    where b.customerid = b.customerid
      and b.bookingdate >= current_date - interval 6 month
)

With the right index in place, exists performs usually far better than in() over a large dataset. Here, you want an index on bookings(customerid, bookingdate).

A: You need to select customerid from bookings table
SELECT custfirstname, custareacode
FROM Customer
WHERE customerid IN (SELECT customerid
                FROM Bookings
                  WHERE DateDiff(CURDATE(), bookingdate) <=180);


Founded in 1988, Creative Labs offers a range of sales, marketing, training and customer support services for its parent company, Creative Technology. founded in 1981, Creative Technology produces various localized products for customers in the United States. The company provides digital entertainment products for the Internet and personal computers. Its product list includes sound blasters, speaker systems, keyboards, headphones, and Web and pocket video cameras. The company also offers adapters, chargers, home theatre cables and consoles. Creative Technology provides a variety of optical mouse, iPods, and MP3 and video players. Additionally, the company offers products under refurbished category that includes pre-owned, tested and inspected products. It has annual sales revenue of more than $910 million.


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Gerald England was ordained in the Presbyterian Church of Southern Africa in 1984, and served for 11 years in the Pinelands Congregational Church in Cape Town for 11 years.
In 1998 the England family moved over to the UK after he was called to serve in the pastorate of Kidderminster and Bromsgrove URC in April 1998, serving both as minister and as Area minister for the Worcestershire and Herefordshire Area of the West Midlands Synod until August 2010.
Having being called to Emmanuel URC at the beginning of 2010, Gerald began his tenure with us in October that year, and also shared his ministry with Christ the Servant LEP for the next 5 years. In 2016 he ended his ministry with Christ the Servant, and began serving as Synod Pastoral Adviser for Swindon and the Wiltshire United Area. This means he continues his ministry here at Emmanuel at 75% scoping, whilst serving in the Synod for the balance of his full time ministry.
He enjoys watching rugby and cricket, and still has more than a soft spot for South Africa. Both he and his wife Pat enjoy travel, and spending time in the manse garden (when weather permits!) During the Summer time visitors to the church will often be confronted with the tantalizing aroma of a barbecue from the manse next door.
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Sprinkle some nuts or coconut shavings on top of the yogurt when you serve to make it more attractive and tastier. Homestretch Homemade yogurt lacks all the artificial ingredients and machinery required to make it as smooth and thick as the commercial type. how to pay for spotify with paypal Homemade Coconut Milk Yogurt Coconut milk yogurt found in the natural food stores can be spendy, some can have a lot of additives in it and they usually do not come in big containers. After taking a class through school called Whole Foods Cooking I, I decided to start making my own coconut milk yogurt at home.
From a price perspective, my coconut yogurt works out to about 15€ (£11 or $17) per litre/quart, which remains more expensive than making yogurt from animal milk, but is notably cheaper than store-bought coconut yogurt.


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package org.conscrypt;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.security.SecureRandomSpi;

/**
 * Implements {@link java.security.SecureRandom} using BoringSSL's RAND interface.
 */
@Internal
public final class OpenSSLRandom extends SecureRandomSpi implements Serializable {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 8506210602917522861L;

    public OpenSSLRandom() {}

    @Override
    protected void engineSetSeed(byte[] seed) {
        if (seed == null) {
            throw new NullPointerException("seed == null");
        }
    }

    @Override
    protected void engineNextBytes(byte[] bytes) {
        NativeCrypto.RAND_bytes(bytes);
    }

    @Override
    protected byte[] engineGenerateSeed(int numBytes) {
        byte[] output = new byte[numBytes];
        NativeCrypto.RAND_bytes(output);
        return output;
    }
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TRANSPARENCY TUESDAY: It's time to fix FERPA … by breaking it
October 10, 2012 December 13, 2018 Frank LoMonte
I've had a lifelong love affair with the game of baseball. Plenty of people have made pilgrimages to Wrigley Field (been there) and Candlestick Park (done that), but I've watched Blowfish in Columbia, Aces in Reno, and Shorebirds in Salisbury. I saw two friends get married on the Sand Gnats' diamond in Savannah, and sat through a 30-minute delay in Staten Island while both teams searched the outfield for a lost contact lens. I can argue for hours about the designated hitter — on either side — and I'm less enamored of the infield fly rule than I was two weeks ago.
I believe that baseball, and not the Higgs particle, explains the universe, because baseball embodies the remainderless logic of physics. You can watch football defenders illegally hold the onrushing lineman on every play without a flag. You can watch basketball players thrash each other black-and-blue with elbows that draw no whistle. But baseball is a ruly game played by a ruly sort, and what unfolds over the course of nine innings is the validating perfection of laws that order and explain the state of play as reliably as gravity.
This is why, to those for whom the final out of the World Series begins the countdown to spring training, fewer things are more deeply offensive than an umpire with an inconsistent strike zone. More contemptible still is the umpire whose ball-and-strike calls observably favor one pitcher or one team. This disturbs the rhythm of the spheres, and it displeases the gods.
That is why I've run out of patience with FERPA — and why it's time to fix this profoundly broken statute. By breaking it the rest of the way.
Today, the Student Press Law Center launched www.breakferpa.org, a campaign to highlight the hypocrisy of educational institutions that call one strike zone when it benefits their self-interest in concealment, and far narrower strike zone when it benefits their students' interest in disclosure.
FERPA, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, started life in 1974 with a narrow and commendable purpose: To protect students against government overreaching. FERPA's congressional sponsors were concerned that schools and colleges were accumulating vast amounts of information in secret files that might be used to students' detriment without their knowledge. Records of psychological test results, or of membership in radical clubs, might be abused by law enforcement to profile and surveil unsuspecting students, with little assurance of accuracy and no opportunity for a wrongfully accused student to clear her name.
FERPA changed all that, by giving students (or in the case of minors, their parents) an absolute right to inspect and correct their "education records." By law, a school or college has 45 days to produce — free of charge — all of the "education records" it keeps that directly relate to the requester. The requester may demand to insert corrective wording into an erroneous or misleading record, and if the school refuses, then the requester has the right to an appeal hearing to challenge that refusal. Almost as an afterthought, FERPA also made these same records confidential when requested by anyone other than the student or her parents.
Somehow, this statute born out of skepticism with a secretive and overreaching government has instead been perverted into an instrument of government secrecy and overreaching. Just this week, student journalists at Georgia State University were told — falsely — that they were not entitled to review police incident reports documenting sexual assaults on their Atlanta campus, because (in the view of the college's legal department — although not in the view of Congress or those of us who live in the real world) police reports are confidential "education records."
Since schools and colleges routinely classify every scrap of paper mentioning a student as a secret FERPA record when asked to comply with public-records requests, they must be held to that same standard when a student wants to inspect her own individual FERPA records.
That's not my opinion. It's the opinion of the U.S. Department of Education, which is tasked by Congress with interpreting and enforcing FERPA. Here, in a brief filed in 2001 with the U.S. Supreme Court, is how the DOE explained the equivalency of FERPA's disclosure and secrecy obligations:
The designation of a document as an education record under FERPA means not only that it is subject to restrictions against release without parental consent, but also that parents have a right to inspect and review the record, a right to a hearing to challenge the content of the record to ensure that it is not inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise in violation of the privacy rights of the student, and a right to insert into such records a written explanation by the parents regarding the content of the records.
In plain English — if a record is secret under FERPA when a reporter requests it, then it must be disclosed when the student appearing in the record asks to see it.
Every college student in America — every student — needs to fill out this form letter and submit it to the college president's office, asking to see all FERPA records as the college itself defines FERPA. That means every email sitting in every employee's "in" box that refers to the student. That means every parking citation issued to the student's vehicle. That means every list, every roster, every videotape — every everything where a student's name or face or Social Security number or other identifier might be found.
We all know just what will happen. Those videotapes and emails and parking tickets — documents commonly misclassified as FERPA records even when they contain no legitimately private information — suddenly won't be FERPA records when hundreds of students show up demanding to inspect and correct them.
It's time to restore consistency and sanity to FERPA. If you're a college student reading this, you can help make it happen. And if you're a journalist who's been given a questionable FERPA-based excuse for rejecting a public-records request, you can submit it for rating on the Arne Scale, and fact-check the school's FERPA claims against reality.
Tagged FERPA


NEW YORK (AP) - Lyft officially kicked off the road show for its initial public offering, putting 30 million shares up for sale Monday with an anticipated price of between $62 and $68 per share. That would raise more than $2 billion for the San Francisco ride-hailing company, which could be valued between $20 billion and $25 billion eventually.
Bookings, which represent Lyft's fares after subtracting taxes, tolls and tips, have been rising dramatically - a trend that the company intends to highlight to potential investors. Lyft's bookings surpassed $8 billion last year, 76 percent more than in 2017 and more than four times the number from 2016.


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Йоаким () е гръцки православен духовник, митрополит и деец на Гръцката въоръжена пропаганда в Македония.

Биография
Митрополит Йоаким е роден в 1885 година в град Аргос, Гърция, с фамилията Смирниотис (Σμυρνιώτης). Още млад става монах в Иверския манастир на Света гора. Получава архимандритски чин. Става свещеник в Сярската епархия, където се включва в Гръцката въоръжена пропаганда в Македония. В 1907 година е измъчване. След това е военен свещеник в Мала Азия в периода 1910-1912 година. В 1945 година става митрополит на Поленинска и Кукушка епархия, като заема поста до смъртта си в 1965 година.

Литература
 Ιωάννου Ερν. Ζεγκίνη. "Το Άργος δια μέσου των Αιώνων", Έκδοσις Τρίτη, Αθήνα 1996.

Бележки

Гръцки духовници
Поленински и Кукушки митрополити
Родени в Аргос
Дейци на гръцката въоръжена пропаганда в Македония
Починали през 1965 година
Монаси в Иверския манастир
Починали в Кукуш


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Marcelly (bürgerlich Marcel Jules Turmel; * 19. März 1882 in Petit-Couronne, Département Seine-Maritime; † 14. Februar 1966 in Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer, Département Seine-Maritime) war ein französischer Chansonsänger.

Leben
Marcel Turmels Vater arbeitete beim Zoll, seine Mutter war Hausfrau. Mit 18 Jahren ging der junge Mann nach Paris, um dort sowohl seinen Militärdienst bei der Feuerwehr abzuleisten als auch eine musikalische Ausbildung am Konservatorium zu absolvieren. Unter dem Namen Marcelly begann er dann als Chansonsänger in verschiedenen Café-concerts aufzutreten. Er debütierte im Parisiana, sang dann für Abendgagen in den Buttes Chaumont und erhielt schließlich einen Fünfjahresvertrag in der Gaîté Rochechouart. Es folgten weitere Engagements in renommierten Music Halls. Zudem schloss Marcelly 1908 einen Exklusivvertrag mit der Plattenfirma Pathé ab, der ihn für 15 Jahre an sie band.

Im Oktober 1914, nach Beginn des Ersten Weltkriegs, wurde Marcelly zur französischen Armee eingezogen und nach einer Kriegsverletzung 1916 wieder entlassen. Er setzte nun seine Sängerkarriere in Paris fort. Seit 1918 ging er im Sommer auf zahlreiche große Tourneen, zunächst innerhalb Frankreichs (Toulouse, Brest, Grenoble, Marseille, Nîmes), später auch in Belgien, Nordafrika und Rumänien. Zudem nahm er kontinuierlich weitere Schallplatten für Pathé auf. Von seinen Einkünften konnte sich Marcelly eine Villa bei Cassis leisten. In den Sommermonaten trat er seitdem häufig in den Casinos der Côte d'Azur auf, in Cassis, La Ciotat und Bandol.

1928 heiratete Marcelly, die Ehe ging aber bald wieder auseinander. Nach seiner zweiten Heirat in Rouen beendete er 1932 seine Sängerkarriere. Er übernahm von seinem Onkel einen Malerbetrieb und sang nur noch gelegentlich bei gesellschaftlichen oder karitativen Anlässen.

Werk
Marcelly hatte eine robuste Baritonstimme und ein sehr vielfältiges Repertoire, das vom Liebeslied bis zum patriotischen Chanson reichte. Er komponierte nie selbst, sondern sang die Repertoires einer Reihe anderer Chansonniers, unter anderem von Félix Mayol und Harry Fragson. Besonders seine Schallplattenaufnahmen waren sehr populär; 1926 enthielt der Pathé-Katalog nicht weniger als 198 Aufnahmen von Marcelly. Das Chanson Je cherche après Titine, später berühmt geworden durch Charlie Chaplins Interpretation in Moderne Zeiten, nahm er 1917 als erster auf Tonträger auf, seine Einspielung von La Madelon, des bekanntesten französischen Soldatenlieds des Ersten Weltkriegs, war ebenfalls die erste überhaupt.

Weblinks
 Gérard Frappé: Marcelly, 'Chanteur Mondain'. Kurzbiografie auf der Seite delabelleepoqueauxanneesfolles.com mit einer langen Liste seiner auf Schallplatte aufgenommenen Chansons (französisch)
 Kurzbiografie auf der Seite dutempsdescerisesauxfeuillesmortes.net mit einem Hörbeispiel und zwei diskografischen Auszügen (französisch)
 Kurzbiografie auf der Seite der Stadt Petit-Couronne (französisch)

Einzelnachweise

Chansonsänger
Pseudonym
Franzose
Geboren 1882
Gestorben 1966
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Two weeks ago TPS's marvellous political blogger, Ad Astra, wrote Where to from here for The Political Sword?. The wise and compassionate and oh so politically astute Ad Astra advised it was time for him to retire. He also advised that the incredible Lyn, of Lyn's Links on The Political Sword was retiring.
Was The Political Sword all over?!!
Well, it seems not.
Those of us who have loved, and found enormous solace and advice and companionship and a sense of family and support at TPS, thought 'no!' We need TPS. We need the Sword, even more than before the 2013 election. We need the Swordsters. We are not ready to let go!
So, a group, team, collective, board (finding a term to describe us is quite a challenge!) of some 10 Swordsters (regular readers and commenters) have formed the 'TPS Team' (with Ad and Lyn's wonderful mentoring).
The brand new TPS Team is organising, behind the scenes, to continue TPS.
The Political Sword is moving from essentially a single-writer blog to one which can flourish as a forum for many writers.
Within a couple of days the team will post the first piece submitted as a conversation-starter from a writer.
We hope this is just the first of many offerings from many different voices.
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Would you like to submit a piece, essentially from a progressive perspective, for consideration?
You are enthusiastically invited to do so!
But first, read through our brief guidelines for submitting an article. Then do be in touch with the TPS Team .
When Ad Astra wrote his final, and farewell piece, he thanked a great many people, including his loyal readers. There is one person remaining, however, who missed out on being thanked because … well, that's Ad Astra, himself.
Ad, this is just for you.
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The cost of ideology
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28/09/2013TPS Team Thank you so much for your delightful tribute to Lyn and me. You have worked tirelessly to reorganize the management of [i]The Political Sword[/i] so that it can continue, although Lyn and I are stepping back. We are grateful that your efforts will allow [i]TPS[/i] to continue as a vibrant progressive voice, so necessary now that the conservatives have taken over. We will continue to look in on [i]TPS[/i] and I will contribute comments and the occasional piece. You have taken the pressure off our shoulders as the site's mainstays; we can now enjoy the site as visitors. The final YouTube video is heart-warming and memorable. Thank you all so much for your good wishes.
28/09/2013For the new management team may I wish you good luck and say thankyou for wanting to keep the sword going. May I say a big thankyou to both Ad astra and Lyn for their efforts over the past few years I have been coming and enjoying this site enjoy your retirement.
28/09/2013The TPS Team of Ten... to take on Abbott's Den of Deceivers? The gumnint's goners!
28/09/2013I will continue to pop in here as usual. Will you be tweeting when a new topic comes up, if so, who do I follow?
28/09/2013Will be lurking and posting...good luck ! Well done AA. Lyn and the team!
Pappinbarra Fox
28/09/2013Congratulations to the TPS and its new team. TPS is worth keeping if just for Casablanca's cache of interesting links every day. The bonus is having an opinion piece to catalyse discussion, keeping us all thoughtful about key topics. That the Opinion pieces will be drafted by Swordsters is a new direction so I urge all Swordsters who have any writing talent to check out the guidelines for contributions and have a go. I understand that it is intended to have a small team of reviewers of submitted articles who will offer feedback to contributors to enhance the piece before the final draft is proofed and published. So if you have an idea rattling around in your mind put it down and do not be daunted as you will not be writing alone to produce a fine piece.
TalkTurkey
28/09/2013WOO HOO! The Sword sings! This is the THIRD time I've written this! First I posted it 7 minutes after the new thread but I got shunted by Ad astra who was worried because the video clip didn't come up for him (It [i]did[/i] for me!) But he got it working, but my post was GONE. and His was first instead. So I rewrit mine. And I SENT it. I don't know what happened to it then! Now I been shunted by that - [i]that[/i] - [i]JASON![/i] :) So I've rerewrit it, Third Time Lucky! Congratulations and Great Works everyone, Thanks to all the Team! H'mmm and that usurping Jason tells me per landline that Michael and Gravel that have gazzummped me in the meantime! You're a great bunch of people and I'm proud of us. Up there FREO! 11 points down atm. Now JAYCEE's flashed in too, glad to see you too.
28/09/2013[quote]May I say a big thankyou to both Ad astra and Lyn for their efforts over the past few years I have been coming and enjoying this site enjoy your retirement. Jason[/quote] ^^^What he said^^^. Couldn't put it any better myself so hopefully Jason won't mind me pinching his words.
28/09/2013Yes a big thank you to Ad astra and Lyn, and ditto 2353 Jason said it so very well her it is again: [i]May I say a big thankyou to both Ad astra and Lyn for their efforts over the past few years I have been coming and enjoying this site enjoy your retirement. Jason [/i] This site was the first one I dared to write a comment on and it made such a big difference to be welcomed and thanked for my views by Ad astra. I welcomed the fact that you allowed lot's of different voices with differing views, it takes a very special person to be so inclusive. Ad astra you have always been up front with everyone and there was no doubting which side of the political fence you came from, but you have allowed all voices to be heard, even those that goaded you and tried to press your buttons. I imagine you must be a very well rounded and tolerant person. So thank you once again, and may TPS live on through the others who have so generously donated their time and expertise.
28/09/2013Welcome to all. We have to work hard, to keep up to the standard that Ad Astra has set. Each day brings a new terror. We now have on day 11, Abbott once again into the run rabbit run mode. It has been played all day on ABC 24. It does not give one confidence, that there are any adults in that bunker. None have put their head up yet, adults, I mean. Ad astra, enjoy your break. From what I have seen of the team, yo have handed it over to good hands.
Curi-Oz
28/09/2013Congratulations to Ad Astra for building such a community that when you step back, there are those amongst us who step into your shoes. Mind you, I note that they must be huge shoes for you (and LynLinking) to be replaced by [b]ten[/b] brave souls! Thank you. And to our TeamX (http://tinyurl.com/ya568ul), thank you for stepping up and keeping this Political Sword sharp in defence of both posters, commentators and civil discussion Thank you to you too.
28/09/2013"[quote]I will continue to pop in here as usual. Will you be tweeting when a new topic comes up, if so, who do I follow? [/quote]" Yes Gravel - the twitter account is still being setup. Will post details when it's ready to go :)
DoodlePoodle
28/09/2013As one who doesn't contribute very often but someone who comes to enjoy this blog site whenever time permits, I too add my gratitude and thanks to both Ad & Lyn. When all that was offered by the MSN was doom and gloom TPS was a strong beacon of light. I am delighted that there is a group who have taken over the running of TPS - thanks you all & good luck.
KHTAGH
28/09/2013I want to thank both Ad Astra & Lyn for the sword as it has been over the last few months. I think Casablanca's cache is the new generation of Lyn's links, so much to read. I take heart in the fact it all gets better from here, the new genesis of the left. To which I add to today's events. Oh Dog what the F@@k are the papers & the media going to report now. Football is over for the year, Abbott government has vanished before our very eyes. How long will it be before examples of Abbott, like today's running from comment starts the cannibalisation of the liberal party. Media due to vacuum start looking into the recent past for stories? Abbott's expenses, Ashbygate, we all know the list. We will all see some funny things happen soon, we know Abbott can't think on his feet, he is anther ego gone mad like Rudd mouth over substance. It is just a matter of time before he has to talk. Just like with George Bush Jr we will soon hear the unmistakeable collective sound of thousands of palms hitting foreheads Australia wide. It will sound glorious & it is coming, so sit back & watch it unfold. Knowing we didn't vote for him. Has anyone else noticed the trolls have vanished too?
Libbyx33
28/09/2013Ad astra, Thank you so very much for all your work here on this site. Even though I don't post, you have welcomed me & considered my comments thoughtfully. Like Lucy, this is the first place I ever posted a comment, and it has given me the courage to post elsewhere. To you and the wonderful Lyn, enjoy your retirement! May the heavens shine on you & yours! To the new TPS Team - Thank you to all of you who have put their hands up to keep this wonderful community going. I'm glad this site is staying. We need to keep a check on this pack of !@#$s. They really scare me! Finally, I'm checking out the guidelines for submitting an article as we speak... you never know :-)
28/09/2013Sorry, should have been: [i] Even though I don't post[/i] OFTEN.
28/09/2013Ad astra often speaks of the TPS *family*. I suggest that it has never felt more so than right now. Michael, Gravel, Lucy, Libbyx33, Doodle Poodle, KHTAGH, Jason, Curi-Oz, all already on this new thread, all cheering us on, THAT FEELS SO GOOD! A little bird tells me that Ad is delighted, and Ad tells me that a little bird is delighted. We all are.
28/09/2013Less than two weeks ago The Political Sword's future was in doubt. Less than a week ago no organisation had been worked out. Now thanks to all *US* wonderful people, and especially the efforts of a few [i]especially[/i] wonderful people, the Sword has never (at least since I've known it, 3 years) looked more vigorous. Not easy, given we are all separated by real distance, but the knowledge of those savvy few is pulling us together into a real team. Of which I am the least savvy member btw. I must confess a personal interest here. Simply, without TPS I'd feel bereft. Who would I write to? This is the blogsite I want to write on. This is the only place I have any power to try to influence others' thinking, and I gain vastly from the links and the points of view of others here. Dog you can see we are going to need all the comradeship we can get over the next Parliament. Abborrrrtt and Morriscum I am calling murderers. The #uck absolutely stops with them, not their underlings.
28/09/2013Day 11 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JhQYehcGweg
28/09/2013Well, this is quite a development! TPS embarks on a new era. Thanks Ad and Lyn for everything. Good to know you won't be strangers as the Sword moves forward. Thanks to those who've stepped up to carry the banner from here.
28/09/2013Should never admit that now my local council elections are over, I am no longer curious about politics ... http://xkcd.com/500/
Patriciawa
28/09/2013I am delighted too, Talk Turkey, as I am sure many others are, knowing that the Political Sword will be carrying on, guided now by this great team which has evolved out of Ad Astra's writing and Lyn's wonderful resource base. It will be great being still able to read comment from old friends like yourself, Gravel, Jason and Janice.......and others too many to mention by by name and as well get to know new names of like minded people drawn here by a shared determination to keep this particular batch of pollies in Canberra on their toes.
29/09/2013 [b]Another Abbott election promise broken - "Sometimes it's better to ask forgiveness than permission"[/b] Tony Abbott says he doesn't need to see the east-west link's full business case Jessica Wright. Prime Minister Tony Abbott will hand over $1.5 billion in federal funding for the [Melbourne] east-west link without seeing the full business case for the controversial massive infrastructure project, despite an election promise that any investment of more than $100 million would require a published cost benefit analysis. Four days before the federal election, during an address at the National Press Club, Mr Abbott said no infrastructure projects worth more than $100 million would be funded without a "published cost-benefit analysis". "We want to see a rolling 15-year list of our national infrastructure priorities created by Infrastructure Australia; obviously to do that Infrastructure Australia will be working very closely with the state governments and the state infrastructure bodies where they exist and all of the projects on the rolling list that we wish to create should be backed by a published cost benefit analysis," he said. "I have given a commitment that we won't spend more than $100 million on any single infrastructure projects without a published cost benefit analysis." Mr Abbott – who he wants to be known as an "infrastructure prime minister" – also pledged during the campaign to deliver an annual statement to parliament on the progress of major projects. http://www.canberratimes.com.au/victoria/tony-abbott-says-he-doesnt-need-to-see-the-eastwest-links-full-business-case-20130927-2uih8.html
29/09/2013 Ministers* claimed costs for wedding trip September 29, 2013. James Robertson Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/ministers-claimed-costs-for-wedding-trip-20130928-2ul6a.html#ixzz2gCiYvtk9 * The 'Ministers' were Shadow Ministers at the time of attending the wedding. They are now the Minister for Agriculture and the Attorney-General.
29/09/2013Congratulations and best wishes to the TPS Team. What a wonderful bunch of people inhabit this site! I look forward to enjoyable, pleasant, informative visits. A big thank you to Ad astra and Lyn for their 5 years of dedication and the hard work it has taken to keep TPS a place we could all call home.
29/09/2013I have missed you all but now welcome back and I also congratulate Lyn and Ad Astra for their work. My comment is now we have the faceless men controlling Abbott and company namely Pell and Murdoch. This will be a frighting ride for all of us as they try and undo all the great work that Julia Gillard and company did under extreme pressure.
29/09/2013Janice, Cuppa, Patricia, New friends are Silver The old are Gold So good to see us all together and so determined!
29/09/2013Does anyone in public life display a more 'holier than thou' face than George Brandis? The SMH story Casablanca's link above leads to should make you gag. ......... Saw footage of 'Made It!' Abbott running away from reporters into his official car on ABC News this morning. Stonyfaced, it was a legs moving variation on the Mark Riley 'shit happens' event. Abbott characterised his behaviour then as "dignified silence". Running away as a definition of "responsibility" exists in no dictionary I know of. Perhaps it's a strategy recommended in the 'Vatican Handbook for Catholic Priests'? Pell has undoubtedly lent 'Made It!' a dog-eared copy. Or maybe one that's never been opened, since 'responsibility' seems the new starting gun for Abbott to disappear.
29/09/2013Someone with the skills should make a Youtube video of Abbott doing the disappearing act. So far we have running out of the House of Reps, dumbstruck with Mark Riley, footage from his interviews with Leigh Sales and Lisa Wilkinson - and they are just off the top of my head. My only suggestion to the person with the ability to do it is make sure you do it in a format that can be added to. You'll be doing it frequently. Hopefully you'll be paid for your efforts at the next election when the ALP gives you squillions for the compilation and runs it as a long election advertisement.
29/09/2013KHTAGH I'm sure you're across this but for the rest of us to know ... [i]Margaret E. Atwood @MargaretAtwood 6h Scientists have zeroed in on what's killing off the bees -- and it's in homes across the US. http://bit.ly/Yc88xq via @Sum_of_Us[/I] Your bees are precious and might soon be beyond price. We must get neonicotinoids BANNED - and FAST.
29/09/2013* The 'Ministers' were Shadow Ministers at the time..." With their lack of public utterances and appearences, I'd say they are STILL "shadow" ministers!
Janet (j4gypsy)
29/09/2013Libbyx33: re [i]Finally, I'm checking out the guidelines for submitting an article as we speak... you never know :-)[/i] Excellent! Don't keep us in suspense too long :-). jaycee: I seem to remember a mildly rash statement about writing a piece in the last month or so? Might be wrong :-) Michael: the guidelines for submitting an article are really very easy to read. (No pressure :-).) Lovely to see so many back here again.
29/09/2013It is OK for us, the taxpayer to pay the three thousand for Brandis and Joyce to attend the wedding of Peter Smith on the Central Coast. Yes, Brandis made a political speech, thanking the man for all the work he has done, pursuing MS. Gillard for her past activities and the AWU. Yes, that is the justification made by this our new government on day 12. Yes, and all the girls on the dance floor, lined up to dance with Brandis. As the Insiders said, under the Howard government, both would be gone. Attending the wedding, for the reasons given, is beyond the pale. Expecting the taxpayer to pay, there is no Be interesting if Shorten is asked for his opinion. I expect not, as Cassidy ids doing his best ti dig up dirt. The new government is under strong condemnation for their handling of the latest boats incident.
29/09/2013Shorten, not usual for politicians to claim expenses for attending weddings to build up networking with journalists. Shorten, tongue in cheek,said there should be a police investigation. By the way, the speech was about freedom of the press.
29/09/2013Cassidy trying to create the impression, that Abbott needs to stand up to the Indonesians.
29/09/2013The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (film) - Wikiquote ... [b]Renewed shall be blade that was broken.[/b] ..... Ad astra: [takes Abborrtt by the throat] [b]It [i]has[/i] been remade.[/b] [Only the names are changed. But this blade was never broken anyway.]
29/09/2013Sorry, I should have said Michael Smith, not Peter.
29/09/2013ABC. reports boat sunk 50mt. off Indo' shore...Bullshit!...look at the pic of the officials and with (I presume) the survivors...you'd have to walk half a bloody mile on that beach before you'd be over your depth!...Another "children overboard"?
29/09/2013It is not about the boat sinking. Maybe that could not have been avoided. It is about how adult this government is in dealing with the problem. Adults do not run. They let the voter in, what is happening. Abbott has made a sword for his own back, and should be condemned.
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29/09/2013Catching up And one sword for Abbott's back will be TPS. Like others, I honour Ad and Lyn for what they have achieved with TPS over the years. You can now enjoy a little more time relaxing although I know Ad has a few plans already to fill his time. To both Ad and Lyn, thank you and enjoy your new free time. Also, like others, it was the first site on which I posted a comment. The wisdom of Ad's articles, the wit of Talk Turkey, the integrity of Jason, and too many others to list, gave the site a wide variety of views (but always progressive) and a "family" atmosphere. Long may it continue that way. We may need an article on "The Big Silence", the new government's way of running things. Any takers??
29/09/2013Interesting interview now on ABC 24. Talking about Gillard
29/09/2013I think Abbott is trying to replicate Howard's promise to put sport, rather than politics, back on the front pages. He is trying to achieve it by saying little and releasing little information. But, as is so often the case with Abbott, he is ignoring that the world has changed. There is now a continuous 24 hour news cycle which means journalists are looking for [u]anything[/u] to fill the space. And he need look no further than himself for this. While Opposition Leader he fed that news cycle continuously but now he is peeved that the journalists seek to continue that approach!!!
29/09/2013Was a repeat of Life Matters, with Jacqueline Kent.
29/09/2013Folks Many thanks to you Jason, Michael, Gravel, jaycee, Pappinbarra Fox, Talk Turkey, 2353, Lucy, Catching up, Curi-Oz, Bacchus, DoodlePoodle, KHTAGH, Libbyx33, cuppa, Patriciawa, Casablanca, janice, Mal, Janet (j4gypsy) and Ken for your kind and generous comments about Lyn and me. It is heart-warming to read several of you say that you felt welcome, and that the atmosphere here gave you the inclination to write comments, some of you for the first time. This is just the sort of family feeling we set out to create. The [i]TPS Team[/i] will continue this family tone in the period ahead. We hope some of you will now try your hand at writing an original piece. It does not need to be long. Check [i]Submitting an article[/i] in the left panel for details. The [i]TPS Team[/i] is doing a sterling job setting up the new management structure so that you can continue to enjoy, benefit from, and contribute to this site for progressive Swordsters. We owe it our deep gratitude.
29/09/2013Just watched part of the video of Mr Abbott not answering questions (couldn't watch the whole, got too embarrassed and annoyed). That was just a five minute paste-up over three years, and I'm sure I can remember lots more. I wonder just how many people who voted for him are starting to regret it? It's also tempting me to 'copycat' these guys http://tinyurl.com/l8g2suf I'm sure my local Federal member's office would be improved by such a public service announcement?!
29/09/2013Brandis and Joyce travel/wedding rorts. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-29/michael-smith-wedding-barnaby-joyce-george-brandis-expenses/4987502 Chickens coming home to roost? Or just a passing irritant? Expect to see both men in the same official position they held last Friday still there next Friday. Because Abbott is the walking constantly refreshed shibboleth of hypocrisy, always has been, always will be. After all, if he comes down hard on the wedding rorters, what to do about the book promotion tour rorter?
29/09/2013First we get Credlin being handled with kid-gloves, now we got a couple of bigger fish to fry...I trust they too will not be let off with a warning...or else this is starting to look like ; "Justice must not only NOT seen to be done, but NEVER seen to be done".
29/09/2013I still have to pinch myself, that it is a Sunday and day 12 of this new government. Day 13 promises to be even more amazing. Yes, the duo off to Indonesia. Morrison's stage managed media show. I suspect, we will see more of Brandis and Joyce. Then we have something that could be of real interested, Gillard on in the afternoon. It is hard work, keeping up with the shenanigans, of this new government, that in spite of staying in the bunker, are sending out waves of tsunami strength. One wonders what would happen, it any were left off the leash. That such discipline was not maintained. I am lost counts. of the issues of concern, that have raised their ugly head, since September 7 I would like to acknowledge and thank all that are continuing to comment, on this site, under new management.
29/09/2013Folks We are now getting on the road to Melbourne. Back this evening.
29/09/2013"According to the federal Department of Finance and Deregulation's entitlements handbook, expenses for official business such as "meetings of a government advisory committee or taskforce" or "functions representing a minister of presiding officer" are allowed for. Meetings with journalists and other members of the media are not sanctioned under the handbook's guidelines." http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-29/michael-smith-wedding-barnaby-joyce-george-brandis-expenses/4987502 One would hope not.
29/09/2013What strikes me more, of a concern, a barrister cannot interpreted the rules.
29/09/2013Catching up -(who has [i]overtaken[/i] most of us! :) )- said [i]Yes, and all the girls on the dance floor, lined up to dance with Brandis[/i] Reminds me of Dorothy Parker's hyperhilarious quip: [i]If all the girls at Vassar were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.[/i]
DMW
29/09/2013Ken @ 12:24 PM I am duty bound to offer a correction (in that family friendly spirit we cherish) You article suggestion would be accurate if it read: [b]"The Big Silence"[/b], [i]the new government's way of running [u]away from[/u] things.[/i]
29/09/2013DMW Love it!!!
29/09/2013Did you receive my email TT?
Gordonwa
29/09/2013Talk Turkey, great to see that The Sword is not broken but has been forged anew by a fantastic fellowship. Here is a quote that may inspire. "But it is not this day" from The Return of the King. Aragorn addressing the assembled warriors in front of the Black Gate of Mordor: "... I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come, when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends, and break all bonds of fellowship. An hour of wolves, and shattered shields, when the Age of men comes crashing down. But it is not this day. This day, we fight!" - Aragorn
29/09/2013 [b]Marr's essay, like earlier essays on Tony Abbott and Kevin Rudd, is essential reading for....a political animal.[/b] The Prince: George Pell by: David Marr When young Father George Pell moved his things into the presbytery in Ballarat in 1973, that corner of Ballarat was one of the most dangerous places in Australia for children. Already living in the presbytery was Father Gerald Ridsdale, chaplain at the little primary school standing on the other side of the church. He was raping the children. Read more: www.themonthly.com.au/.../prince-george-pell [i]Another good read:[/i] Santamaria's warriors Pell, Abbott on a real mission Jack Waterford Read more: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/santamarias-warriors-pell-abbott-on-a-real-mission-20130927-2ujxx.html#ixzz2gCuzNevJ [i]See also:[/i] Marring the Cardinal's image Andrew Hamilton http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=38249#.UkfZdre19ZY |
29/09/2013Gordonwa @ 4.51pm A great and relevant quote. Indeed, this day we fight, and the next and the next, until the dark cloud of Abbott is wiped from the landscape.
29/09/2013Congratulations on the new Sword and best of luck for the future.
30/09/2013TT & KHTAGH Neonicotinoids and honey bee health in Australia http://www.apvma.gov.au/news_media/chemicals/neonics.php ps I think that this Government agency escaped the Abbott axe last week.
30/09/2013 [u][b]CASABLANCA'S CACHE[/b][/u] for Monday, 30 September 2013 [u][b]ETHICS[/b][/u] [b] 1.	Twitter: #troughsnouting[/b] julianburnside @JulianBurnside 7h Brandis, Joyce attended wedding on taxpayers' tab http://bit.ly/18ArE9ucaught out #troughsnouting Bad look for first Law Officer [b] 2.	Labor's Mark Dreyfus says George Brandis unfit to draft ministerial code of conduct[/b] Labor has seized on claims that Attorney-General George Brandis used taxpayer funds to attend a wedding two years ago, saying the incident shows the Senator is "not fit" to draft a new code of conduct for ministers. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-30/labor-says-george-brandis-unfit-to-draft-ministerial-code/4987938 [b] 3.	Ministers claimed costs for wedding trip[/b] James Robertson According to travel expenses lodged with the Department of Finance, the Brandis & Joyce collectively billed taxpayers nearly $3000 for flights, hire cars and incidental expenses incurred on the trip (to attend the wedding of shockjock Michael Smith). http://www.canberratimes.com.au/federal-politics/ministers-claimed-costs-for-wedding-trip-20130928-2ul6a.html [b] 4.	George Brandis and Barnaby Joyce deny wrongdoing over travel expenses claims[/b] Coalition frontbenchers George Brandis and Barnaby Joyce have denied any wrongdoing after reports they used taxpayer funds to attend a wedding in 2011. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-29/michael-smith-wedding-barnaby-joyce-george-brandis-expenses/4987502?WT.mc_id=newsmail [b] 5.	Unsung hero[/b] Heather Brooke The only reason we know anything about all those claims for light bulbs and moat cleaning is that campaigning journalist Heather Brooke has spent the last five years fighting tooth and nail for MPs to come clean about their expenses ... http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/may/15/mps-expenses-heather-brooke-foi [b] 6.	A question of ethics: journalists and climate change [/b] Tim Dean (Hypothetical) Breaking news: scientists have discovered a comet that will collide with Earth in 30 years. Its impact will be devastating, killing millions, flooding coastal cities and disrupting civilisation as we know it. http://theconversation.com/a-question-of-ethics-journalists-and-climate-change-18395 [b] 7.	Sidebar of blame: why we are addicted to Daily Mail Online [/b] John Jewell The first annual "Don't Read the Daily Mail" day was held recently, organised by @DMReporter, a twitter feed that critiques the paper every day. The organisers announced the day of action because, even though they were committed to exposing the "hypocrisies and bigotries" of the paper, all the tweeting was really doing was ensuring that the Daily Mail website got more hits and therefore more advertising revenue. http://theconversation.com/sidebar-of-blame-why-we-are-addicted-to-mail-online-18710 [u][b]POLITICS[/b][/u] [b] 8.	Tony Abbott heads to Jakarta for talks with Indonesian president in first international trip since election[/b] Samantha Hawley Border protection policy and asylum seeker deaths at sea will dominate Tony Abbott's first overseas visit as Prime Minister. Indonesia is the greatest recipient of Australian aid and that subject is expected to also be discussed between the two leaders.The Coalition Government has announced it will slash the aid budget by $4.5 billion, but the ABC understands Indonesia will be no worse off. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-30/tony-abbott-jakarta-first-international-trip-since-election/4987948 [b] 9.	Abbott's great mistake will haunt 2016 [/b] Rob Burgess Abbott has wasted his first big political opportunity by choosing to reward angry party faithfuls, rather than work on maintaining political ground he was lucky to win at the general election. To be specific, the "anything but that lunatic Rudd" vote does not belong to Abbott, but a large part of it could have been his right through to 2016 had he approached these first days in power more adroitly. http://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2013/9/24/politics/abbotts-great-mistake-will-haunt-2016 [b] 10.	Tony Abbott says he doesn't need to see the east-west link's full business case[/b] Jessica Wright Prime Minister Tony Abbott will hand over $1.5 billion in federal funding for the east-west link without seeing the full business case for the controversial massive infrastructure project, despite an election promise that any investment of more than $100 million would require a published cost benefit analysis. http://www.canberratimes.com.au/victoria/tony-abbott-says-he-doesnt-need-to-see-the-eastwest-links-full-business-case-20130927-2uih8.html [b] 11.	PM had an axe after all[/b] Mark Kenny Despite promises of calm, the second week of Abbott's government was marked by a passion for dismantling and secrecy. Just 10 days after being sworn in, the list of agencies, programs and personnel being cut is mounting. Taken together, they paint a picture of a government whose agenda risks being defined more clearly by dismantling than building - by what it is against rather than what it is for. Week two of the Abbott government was notable for two things - the continuing process of de-Laborising the government in form and personnel and its clear preference to keep those efforts secret. http://www.canberratimes.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/pm-had-an-axe-after-all-20130927-2ujls.html [b] 12.	Tony and company in trouble already[/b] Alex Schlotzer The new Tony Abbott-led government seems to be experiencing some rough turbulence despite the promises of being a steady, trustworthy government. Within days of coming to office the conservative government set about to ignore, and in some cases break, their promises. http://alexschlotzer.wordpress.com/ [b] 13.	Government – what a difference an election makes [/b] rossleighbrisbane A then & now senario. http://theaimn.com/2013/09/28/government-what-a-difference-an-election-makes/ [u][b]ASYLUM SEEKERS[/b][/u] [b] 14.	Indonesia military implicated in deaths of asylum seekers as Scott Morrison rejects survivors' claims[/b] George Roberts Members of the Indonesian military have been implicated in a fatal people-smuggling operation that may have killed up to 30 children. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-29/indonesia-military-implicated-in-deaths-of-asylum-seekers/4987772 [b] 15.	Asylum seeker boat sank 50 metres off Indonesian shore, survivors say[/b] George Roberts. Survivors from an asylum seeker boat that sank off Indonesia say the boat returned to land after it hit trouble in rough seas and sank only 50 metres from the shore. About 50 people are either missing or dead, 30 of them understood to be children, after the boat sank off Agrabinta, a remote area of the coast off the Cianjur region of west Java, after it got into trouble on Thursday. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-29/asylum-seeker-boat-sank-50-metres-off-indonesian-shore/4987412 [b] 16.	Will the real Scott Morrison please stand up?[/b] Michael Taylor After Howard's demonisation of asylum seekers it was a breath of fresh air to hear someone new in the party speak of his love for all people and their right to share our country. One could have easily been lulled into believing this man could one day become the Minister for Immigration and through his beliefs restore Australia's long-gone goodwill of fellow beings. http://cafewhispers.wordpress.com/2013/09/28/will-the-real-scott-morrison-please-stand-up/ [u][b]CLIMATE CHANGE[/b][/u] [b] 17.	IPCC: where to for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean? [/b] Tony Press Even though the past two decades of research have revealed great changes to the deep ocean in the Antarctic, there is much that we do not know, especially about what is happening under the ice. And one of the greatest unknown in estimates of future sea level rise is the dynamic response of the Antarctic ice sheet, especially that part which is grounded below sea level. http://theconversation.com/ipcc-where-to-for-antarctica-and-the-southern-ocean-17767 [u][b] LABOR LEADERSHIP[/b][/u] [b] 18.	Twitter: Stephen Koukoulas @TheKouk 15h [/b] Election betting: Labor $3.40; Coalition $1.30. (29 September, 2013) [b] 19.	Heeding the lessons of history: how can Labor recover? [/b] Geoffrey Robinson How can Labor regroup after the trauma of its defeat at the federal election? The best example the past offers is how the party rebuilt after the tumultuous prime ministership of Gough Whitlam in the mid-1970s. http://theconversation.com/heeding-the-lessons-of-history-how-can-labor-recover-18495?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The+Weekend+Conversation&utm_content=The+We ekend+Conversation+CID_de94852036728c0df7e9fba3512d6fb7&utm_source=campaign_monitor&utm_term=Heeding%20the%20lessons%20of%20history%20how%20can%20Labor%20recover [b] 20.	THE RUDD EXPERIMENT[/b] John Birmingham 'In the long and storied history of the Australian Labor Party, a people's history in which villains of the darkest hue are invariably recorded as "Labor rats", few, if any, have ratfucked the party like Kevin Michael Rudd'. http://annesummers.com.au/pdf/ASR_issue4.pdf [b] 21.	Bill Shorten says Labor Party must grow membership and promote diversity[/b] Federal Labor leadership contender Bill Shorten says the ALP needs to work on attracting a larger, more diverse membership and open up the party preselection process. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-29/shorten-says-alp-must-grow-party-membership/4987526?WT.mc_id=newsmail [b] 22.	Shorten admirable but Albo FTW. [/b] Peter Wicks. As most of us know, deep down, the Right faction of the Labor Party has done it few favours lately. Think Eddie Obeid, think Joe Tripodi, think the whole sordid saga of the knifing of Kevin Rudd and then Julia Gillard, think ICAC in NSW, and think the culture of the "Faceless Men". Maybe it's past time we passed the torch over to the Left hand side… www.independentaustralia.net/.../ [b] 23.	Labor needs some swagger. Shorten's the man for the job[/b] John McTernan The shape of the choice is starting to become clearer, and there are three areas on which the battle will turn. http://www.canberratimes.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/labor-needs-some-swagger-shortens-the-man-for-the-job-20130927-2ujm7.html [b] 24.	Virtue and vexation: the policy vacuum in the 2013 election [/b] Barry Jones I have been around for a long time and involved in some terrible campaigns, but the policy vacuum in 2013 was the worst I can recall. There was no serious debate on issues, whether simple or complex, and an obsessive emphasis on personalities, stunts and trivia. http://theconversation.com/virtue-and-vexation-the-policy-vacuum-in-the-2013-election-18144 [u][b] INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS[/b][/u] [b] 25.	Digging out the truth: why the case for increasing wages is flawed [/b] Dean Parham New research shows workers are taking home a smaller portion of income in the economy now than at the beginning of the last decade. Some would like to see increased wages to restore that share – despite this putting even more pressure on struggling sectors like manufacturing. [u][b]ABBOTT'S HEROES & MENTORS[/b][/u] [b] 26.	Santamaria's warriors Pell, Abbott on a real mission[/b] Jack Waterford Santamaria, an older Pell recalled, ''set out to identify the mighty forces under the swirl of events. He often appealed to history. We felt we too belonged to the forces of good fighting the new faces of evil, as saints and heroes had done for thousands of years''. http://www.canberratimes.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/santamarias-warriors-pell-abbott-on-a-real-mission-20130927-2ujxx.html#ixzz2gJFw1a7d [b] 27.	Marring the Cardinal's image[/b] Andrew Hamilton The story Marr tells is of a man who was always committed to defend the Church and faith against its enemies, and whose main care was always to promote the church and its interests. ...According to Marr, in dealing with sexual abuse his concern was to limit the exposure of the Church, and he displayed little empathy with victims. www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx [u][b]VIDEOS[/b][/u] [b] 28.	Gillard's achievements [/b] http://trevorcook.typepad.com/weblog/2013/09/gillards-achievements-video.htmlhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8ZFyt7M7NUc [b] 29.	Tony Abbott ignoring, walking or hiding away from questions.[/b] 5m41s http://mash.network.coull.com/activatevideo?video_provider_id=2&pid=8165&website_id=68251&width=700&height=424&embed_type=IFRAME&video_provider_url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/embed/DB7cVFY_LCg%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D1%26fs%3D1%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv_load_policy%3D1%26wmode%3Dtransparent%22 [b] 30.	TEN EYEWITNESS NEWS | PM runs from media [/b] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhQYehcGweg [u][b]ECONOMICS[/b][/u] [b] 31.	Can Labor be blamed for rising unemployment?[/b] Matt Cowgill Peter Reith and his fellow advocates are quick to blame labour laws for a rise of unemployment in Australia. Too bad their argument doesn't hold up. The argument might not hold up, but you have to admire the brazen, bald-faced way Reith and others pivot from claim to claim, discarding past scares with barely a look over the shoulder. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/27/australia-australian-welfare [b] 32.	Ways to bridge the gaps on infrastructure[/b] Ross Gittins ... building new infrastructure can be very expensive. In principle, it can be paid for by increasing taxes, by cutting spending elsewhere or just by allowing the budget deficit to get bigger and borrowing to cover it. Trouble is, from where Abbott sits, none of those possibilities looks attractive. http://www.canberratimes.com.au/business/ways-to-bridge-the-gaps-on-infrastructure-20130927-2ujlh.html [b] 33.	Saving the salary packaging industry[/b] John Quiggin (Note scroll down to 'September 19th, 2013' for this item.) Going into the election Abbott promised to reverse the Rudd government's tightening of FBT rules for motor vehicles, at a cost of $1.2 billion over the forward estimates period of 4 years. This was to be funded in part by scrapping $500 million of assistance to the domestic car industry....But, even if we don't make cars any more, we will, at least, have a salary packaging industry that is the envy of the world. http://johnquiggin.com/ [u][b]FROM LYNLINKING ARCHIVES[/b][/u] [b] 34.	Tony Abbott has sunk to a new low[/b] John Birmingham February 15, 2011 It's funny the things we think of as racist, or bigoted, or whatever. Eddie McGuire makes some ill considered, dumbarse crack about "falafel land" in western Sydney and we're all over him like Hitler's doppelgänger. Tony Abbott carefully crafts his spending cuts to "pay for" the repair bill arising from Queensland's recent floods, by punishing little brown men, and we're like, "meh". This is in spite of the fact that Abbott's carefully constructed policy bid was framed to appeal to the worst of our nature by taking money from the foreign aid budget, and specifically from funding support for "Islamist" schools in Indonesia. http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/federal-politics/blogs/blunt-instrument/tony-abbott-has-sunk-to-a-new-low-20110214-1atj0.html [u] [b]PETITIONS[/b] [/u] [b] 35.	Sign the petition now to tell the Australian government not to criminalise consumer boycotts. [/b] Under the proposed law, it would be illegal to call on another individual or company to boycott a product because it was unsafe or destroying the environment. http://action.sumofus.org/a/abbott-boycotts/?sub=tw [b] 36.	Roundup of petitions to Abbott government [/b] James Wight Australia's new Liberal/National Coalition government, led by Tony Abbott, is claiming a mandate for its promises to tear down the Australian climate policy regime. If you don't support this program of demolition, then tell him about it! Consider signing the following petitions: [b] •	Tell Australia not to scrap carbon tax.[/b] http://www.thepetitionsite.com/759/592/093/tell-australia-not-to-scrap-carbon-tax/ [b] •	Tony Abbott and the Coalition: Reconsider your plan to dismantle the $10 billion Clean Energy Fund.[/b] https://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-and-the-coalition-reconsider-your-plan-to-dismantle-the-10-billion-clean-energy-fund-2 [b] •	Federal Environment Minister: Help save the Great Barrier Reef.[/b] https://www.getup.org.au/campaigns/coal-seam-gas/save-the-great-barrier-reef/help-save-the-great-barrier-reef Let's show Tony Abbott the Australian people do want action on climate change. http://precariousclimate.com/ [b] 37.	Hypocrisy, Thy Name Is Mal[/b] Sortius With the recent Change.org petition taking off like an RS-25 core stage rocket engine, Malcolm Turnbull has been forced to respond to the [b] 263,021 (and growing as at 29 Sept)[/b] signature petition. The response has been dismissive & downright hypocritical. Up until recently, Malcolm Turnbull was all for petitions, posting links even to a Change.org petition for the Sydney Harbour Heliport (which didn't even crack 2500 signatures). http://www.sortius-is-a-geek.com/hypocrisy-thy-name-mal/ [b] 38.	The Liberal Party of Australia: Reconsider your plan for a 'FTTN' NBN in favour of a superior 'FTTH' NBN [/b] Nick Paine Petition Organiser http://www.change.org/nbn [b] 39.	Why not add a little more pressure and voice your opinions directly to Malcolm's Facebook page, Twitter feed, and the comments section below?[/b] https://www.facebook.com/malcolmturnbull?fref=ts https://twitter.com/TurnbullMalcolm [b][u]TODAY'S MAIN NEWS[/u][/b] [b] •	ROULE REPORT — Issues of Today[/b] http://paper.li/RouleReport/1334728962 [b] •	REAL-TIME NEWS[/b] Margo Kingston The Tweeted Times aggregates news in your Twitter stream and ranks them by popularity among your friends. Never miss any important news! The Tweeted Times is a real-time personalized newspaper generated from your Twitter account. The Tweeted Times rebuilds your newspaper hourly, and is always up-to-date http://tweetedtimes.com/#!/margokingston1 [b] •	ASHBYGATE[/b] http://tweetedtimes.com/#!/search/AshbyGate/en [b] •	AN EYE ON ABC NEWS: .[/b] Keeping the bastards who keep the bastards honest, honest http://www.abcnewswatch.blogspot.com.au/ [b] •	AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPER FRONT PAGES[/b] www.thepaperboy.com/australia/front-pages.cfm [b] •	NEWS HEADLINES[/b] http://www.hotheadlines.com.au/
30/09/2013Perth Swordsters: Albanese & Shorten will host a BBQ today 9-10.30am at Hyde Park https://twitter.com/janecat60/status/384310067048091648/photo/1
30/09/2013 [b]Psychologist says Tony Abbott's media strategy will benefit the government and his brand [/b](Video 6mins 49secs) Behavioural psychologist and Gruen Transfer panellist Adam Ferrier tells Nick Grimm on Weekend Breakfast that Tony Abbott's tight-lipped approach to the media will benefit his Government. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-29/the-silent-treatment---tony-abbotts-new-media/4987566
30/09/2013Hashtag troughsnouting rambeaux @rambeaux I went to my boss' wedding. Can I claim work related expenses on my tax return? #troughsnouting @twitACTION @JulianBurnside Brandis tripped the light fantastic @ wedding party: shows fancy footwork in firing off reimbursement cheque to Dept Finance julianburnside @JulianBurnside "@stevethompson49: Since when does the taxpayer fund Liberal Party members "networking" with shock jocks? #AusPol" #troughsnouting julianburnside @JulianBurnside Brandis, Joyce attended wedding on taxpayers' tab http://bit.ly/18ArE9ucaught out #troughsnouting Bad look for first Law Officer Corey @BlazeofCorey "We are the party of fiscal responsibility" said George Brandis while spending taxpayers money at a friends wedding #troughsnouting
30/09/2013Thank you Migs for the congratulations. From the TPS Team :-)
30/09/2013 Sophie's PM portrait gets pride of place Lisa Cox It was the photo that captured the connection between a 12-year-old girl with Down syndrome and a prime minister. Now, the image that moved former prime minister Julia Gillard to tears is on display for all Australians to see. Read more: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/sophies-pm-portrait-gets-pride-of-place-20130929-2umue.html#ixzz2gK2b9tEL
30/09/2013 [b]Boats, what boats?[/b] Lyn Calcutt Our current, popular understanding of sovereignty in relation to asylum seekers was largely dreamt up by John Howard...The Abbott Government's current diplomatic difficulties with Indonesia are the result of this confection and its rabbit-out-of-a-hat embrace of sovereignty, with a failure to appreciate the hard earned and culturally embedded meaning of sovereignty for Indonesia. All for the sake of pure politics. http://ausopinion.com/2013/09/30/boats-what-boats/
30/09/2013Good Morning All Just to say Good Morning All Message ends!
30/09/2013Casablanca What are you doing up at 5.00am posting your fabulous links? Hope you managed to get some sleep afterwards! We do greatly appreciate the links but I, for one, would be quite happy to see them posted a little later so that you can have some sleep.
30/09/2013Tony Abbott denied visa to enter Indonesia upon landing in Jakarta. Plane refused permission to take off for return to Australia. Indonesian government tells Tony Abbott to take a boat 'home'. Buy one if he likes. Well, I can dream, can't I?
30/09/2013This story by Andrew Bolt http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/tony-abbott-scores-his-first-big-win-over-boats/story-fni0ffxg-1226729517704 is arrant BS. This one about Barnaby Joyce and Michael Smith's wedding http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/barnaby-joyce-to-pay-up-for-comcar-used-for-radio-host-michael-smith8217s-wedding/story-fnhnv0wb-1226730056386 has Peta Credlin all over it. The wedding was two years ago. That's a lot of time since, let alone before, for a manner of behaviour to have occurred many other times. May the whistles blow!
30/09/2013Casablanca Thanks for yet another set of fascinating links in Casablanca's Cache; It hasn't taken long for the Coalition's lies and broken promises to show up, just as we knew would be the case.
1/10/2013Creepy Abbott delivers pious rhetoric in Jakarta. Indonesians are committed to politeness and manners, but they recognise unctuousness a mile away. It actually disgusts them. Abbott's just sold himself as easy meat. A Javanese schoolkid could outplay him... if they could be bothered.
1/10/2013Is it the norm, for new governmentsd to go voerseas, where the trash the previous government. Has it eve entered the brain of Abbott, that he is also trashing those who vote Labor, about fifty percent of the population. They could not have place those podiums any further apart, if they tried. Did not see the president glanced Abbott's was at any time. We now have the media telling us, that Abbot had a success and have them on side. All that has been agreed, is further talks. Seeing the talks involved Mr. Morrison, he could have us at war before the year is out. (joke) I suspect tonight's Gillard show will be better than last night,
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Another year is behind us. It's been the most torrid since the end of WWII. I don't need to elaborate.
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"There are none so blind than those who do not want to see."
Even after yesterday's grotesque Trump-inspired invasion of the seat of US government, his cult followers will rationalise his criminal behaviour and follow him to the end, reminiscent of the events in Jonestown, Guyana...
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The New York Times attempted to whitewash the violent leftist group antifa in a story Tuesday, and reported there is no such thing as an "alt-left" counterpart to the alt-right.
The article casts the term alt-left as completely unconnected from the existence of any actual far left group. The term alt-left is merely an invention of right wing extremists drummed up to castigate their political opponents, NYT reporter Liam Stack writes, based on conversations with a number of academics.
The linked NYTimes article focuses almost entirely on the events in Charlottesville. It relies on statements made by extremism "analysts" who said that because the only fatal violence that occurred Saturday was perpetrated by a member of the alt-right, that group inherently bears more responsibility for the tragic outcome.
There's truth to the point, but it ignores antifa's long history of violence and incendiary rhetoric.
Antifa and other groups of their ideological ilk have called for racial segregation based on the idea that the mere presence of white people makes racial minorities feel unsafe and that this discomfort warrants their protection from being exposed to white people. They further allege that white people should not be afforded the right to speak about certain political issues because they lack the relevant personal experience of systemic oppression.
This ideological commitment manifested itself at Evergreen State College, where far left agitators demanded a "day of absence" for all white people on campus. When Evergreen professor Brett Weinstein protested this racial segregation he was labeled a " fascist" giving license to the campus leftists to harass him to the point that he was force into hiding.
Antifa members have often resorted to violence to enforce their brand of identity politics, often rioting, committing assault and destroying property in an effort to shut down the speech of those they disagree with.
Far left groups like Antifa justify the violence they commit by arguing that the speech of their political opponents is inherently violent and thus warrants a violent response. By equating political speech with actual violence the group feels justified in rioting and assaulting people to prevent thinkers they disagree with from having a platform.
This ideology manifested itself at Claremont McKenna College in April when the conservative academic Heather McDonald was physically prevented from entering an auditorium by protesters, who before arriving wrote a letter to the university arguing that McDonald's work "challenges the right of black people to exist." In fact, McDonald is an expert on the relationship between policing and crime rates and was the first to discover the "Ferguson Effect," a concept social scientists across the political spectrum now agree on.
Far left protesters similarly attempted to shut down conservative political scientist Charles Murray and assaulted a professor accompanying him to his car outside of the speaking event. Murray was forced to give his speech remotely from another campus building due to the violence surrounding the venue he was scheduled to speak at. There are a plethora of similar examples in which antifa enforced their racially inflammatory ideology with violence in much the same way the alt-right has done.
The NYT refuses to acknowledge that far left, violent, identity based groups like Antifa and the alt-right are reflections of each other. Rather, they dismiss the reality of the groups' behavior and obscure the facts.


My body felt refreshed from my rest day in Perth (Day 23), where I got to see Ben and a few friends, including Pauna, a super traveller whom I met in Turkey 3 years ago. This great, wild world community, eh?
100km passed by quickly in bike meditation. I expected the opposite. – without my podcasts and music (all on my dead phone), I thought I'd be bored. But time passes more smoothly without sound interrupting it.
My mind is definitely adjusting to bike touring. 3 weeks ago I was bored out of my mind after two hours in the saddle. Now, every morning I look forward to saddling up, and time passes in a flash.
pretty cool – every house has a little boat moored to a personal dock out back.
You meet some awesome people through cycling.
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is a Japanese gravure idol. She is from Tokyo, and belongs to the show-business production Suns Entertainment. She belonged to Yellow Cab before 2004. She portrayed the hostess who became a nun named Saori in Lion-Maru G.

Career
Kobayashi graduated from Aoyama Gakuin Senior High School. As a freshman there, she was in the swimming club. She later earned a degree in management at Aoyama Gakuin University. When she belonged to Yellow Cab Kobayashi was a member of R.C.T. She was a defender for the futsal team Carezza, having uniform number 3.

Activities

TV Programs
 Kyabutomushi, Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting
 Odaiba-kei Bikini de Manyumanyu, Fuji Satellite Broadcasting
 R# Room Number, TV Asahi 2003 R#216
 Papa ni Onedari
 Naku Hi
 Dokushin 3!!, TV Asahi 2003
 Hiroshi Sekiguchi no Friend Park II, TBS 2003-04
 Ken Shimura no Baka-tonosama, Fuji Television 2003
 Takajin no soko made Itte Iinkai, YTV
 Akko ni Omakase!, TBS
 Zettai Tsukaeru Drive Tour 3, NTV 2005
 Jichael Mackson, MBS 2005
 Uchimura Produce, TV Asahi 2005
 Quiz Presen' Variety Q-sama!!, TV Asahi 2005, 2006
 Mecha-Mecha Iketeru!, Fuji Television 2006
 Quiz! Hexagon II, Fuji Television 2006
 Do-tanki Tsumekomi Kyoiku! Gowan! Coaching!!, TV Tokyo 2006
 Konya mo Doll-bako!! R, TV Tokyo 2006
 KICK IN! GAROTAS FUTSAL TV, Fuji Satellite Broadcasting
 FNS 26 Jikan TV Kokumintekina Omoshirosa! Shijo Saidai!! Manatsu no Quiz Matsuri 26 Jikan Buttoshi Special "Hijoshiki wa Bishonure! Asa made Nep-league SP" 2006
 Saishu Keikoku! Takeshi no Hontou wa Kowai Katei no Igaku, ABC
 Lion-Maru G, TV Tokyo 2006
 Roshiago Kaiwa, NHK E 2007-

Bibliography

Photobooks
 , Aqua House 2002
 AI, Compass 2002
 HAPPENING, Takeshobo 2003
 umiemi, Ongakusenkasha 2005
 , Shinchosha 2006

External links
 Suns Entertainment
 Profile of Emi Kobayashi

 "Monthly Charger" Idol Interview Vol.4: Emi Kobayashi  - In October 2005

1983 births
Japanese gravure models
Japanese idols
Japanese actresses
Japanese television personalities
Living people
People from Tokyo
Aoyama Gakuin University alumni


An image processing system is being used at the National Gallery, London, to record colour changes in paintings at five-year intervals. It is hoped that colour changes can be related to environmental conditions in areas where the paintings are stored or displayed. Techniques used in the past relied on photographic processes rather than optomechanical scanning which can make a permanent record of colour. The equipment of both the prototype system and the current system are described. The principles of digital imaging, the measurement procedure, and the limitations of the system are discussed.
Saunders, D. 'Colour Change Measurement by Digital Image Processing'. National Gallery Technical Bulletin Vol 12, pp 66–77.